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eMOLT Update 2023-10-06
This week, we welcomed two new vessels to the eMOLT program, the F/V
Mattie & Ayva and the F/V No Sympathy. Both are lobster boats
fishing out of Maine harbors and have been equipped with the new
DDH-style deckboxes and Moana probes. The No Sympathy will also deploy
two dissolved oxygen loggers for the remainder of the season.
With the adoption of the Moana profiling sensors, we’re now starting
to look for new ways to make sense of the data, and new software rules
for automatic data processing. For example, the Argo program only
delivers upcast data to the Global Telecommunication System. That’s easy
enough to parse out when the sensors are attached to a robot that
operates in a predictable way, but it’s much more difficult when you’re
looking at something like this…

This gear got hung up and bounced up and down in the water column
while the captain was trying to clear it, making several abrupt,
vertical changes in direction. In the span between the two red dots, it
also starts to come up, then drop back to the bottom, then come back
towards the surface again. These types of cases can be really
challenging for automated QAQC to resolve, and often take direct
communication with the captain to understand what was happening and
whether this is real data or a sensor malfunction. So, we’ll continue to
plug away at writing new data processing software to clean up as many of
these cases as we possibly can before the data are used for any
research.
Forecasts
NECOFS Bottom Temperature Forecast


Doppio Bottom Temperature Forecast

Announcements
All the best, George and JiM
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